Sunday, July 3, 2016

Infographic: The Merging Worlds of Technology and Cars

From Bloomberg:

,,, Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Officer
Sergio Marchionne thinks it makes no sense for carmakers to spend
billions of dollars developing competing, yet largely identical systems.
To share some of the risk—and the cost—the incumbent automotive giants
and their would-be disruptors are teaming up in an ever-growing, ever
more complex series of alliances.

So Fiat Chrysler, for instance, has paired up with Google to develop 100 self-driving minivans, and is in discussions with Uber about a similar venture. Google has, in turn, invested in Uber, as have Toyota, Microsoft and Tata, owner of Jaguar Land Rover. Bill Ford, chairman of the eponymous carmaker, has meanwhile invested in Lyft, as has General Motors, and Lyft has partnered with China’s Didi, itself the subject of a $1 billion investment from Apple.